Water Is Free

Water is free. It falls from the sky, runs down the mountains, and pools in the ground beneath your feet. No one invoiced you for the rain.

But if you want it filtered, someone has to build the filter. If you want it bottled, someone has to make the bottle. If you want it cold, someone has to run the refrigerator. And if you want it brought to your door on a silver platter, someone has to carry the platter. The water was free. Everything that made it useful to you cost someone something.

That's the problem with every promise of "free." Free internet, free healthcare, free college. Cables, towers, clinics and classrooms don't build themselves, and the people who run them don't work for nothing. "Free" never means no one pays. It means someone else pays.

There are only two ways someone else pays. Either they choose to give it, or it's taken from them. Scripture calls the first one charity: "Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver" (2 Corinthians 9:7). Scripture calls the second one theft: "You shall not steal" (Exodus 20:15). Putting it to a vote doesn't change which one it is.

That's why every demand for freebies ends up being a call for slavery. If I have a right to the fruit of your labor without your consent, then you work for me whether you agree or not. That isn't generosity. That's ownership.

And whoever pays gets a say. "The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender" (Proverbs 22:7). The hand that pays for your water decides what's in it, how it reaches you, whether in bottles, copper pipes, or lead pipes, and whether you get any at all. Free internet paid for by someone else is internet controlled by someone else. The gift becomes a leash.

There is one thing that is truly free. "Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price" (Isaiah 55:1). God pays for that Himself, and takes from no one to give it.

Everything else has a price. The only question is whether it's paid freely or taken by force.

Voting for Freedom‽

# Why should people vote for your preferred political party. 

Despite marginal differences between political parties:

1. Which party will stop committing war crimes? 

2. Which party will observe all of the moral rights that people exercise?

3. Which party will stop coercive confiscation of personal property?

4. Which party will allow competition for monopoly government services?

Freedom

 Freedom is a state of being. One is either free or they are governed. They cannot be both.

There is no sliding scale. If one is said to be "less free", this is simply an admission that this person is not free. Even while such a phrase may be perfectly fine in terms of English grammar, it doesn't capture the truth that such a person is not free in any sense that doesn't undermine the word's meaning.

A dog on a chain is not free. No matter how long a chain may be the animal is governed by the length of said chain. It is proper however to say that a dog on a longer chain has more liberty than a dog on a shorter one. Given a choice between a longer chain and freedom, I suppose, most dogs would rather be free.

Are You Free?

 A few weeks ago, I was talking to a former Marine at the local laundry mat. We were talking about current affairs, when out of nowhere, he says, "I think we should do like Isreal and make kids spend two years in the military." I told him, "Once you start coercing people into the military, you're no longer a free people." He said. "We aren't free now."

I said, "Bingo!".

I am a freedom advocate. If you know me in real life, you know that. It is pretty black and white; One is either free or governed. You cannot be both. People should be free.

As a veteran myself, I understand patriotism; How it colors our view of the state. After all, we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Right? Yet, "citizens" require a license for almost anything important. Want to open a business; you'll need a business license. Want to hunt for food? You'll need a hunting license. Want to marry your sweetheart? You'll need a marriage license. When a person applies for a state license, they are asking permission from the state. Free people do not have to ask for permission to do what is within their right.

I remember someone telling me, "Driving is not a right. It is a privilege. That is why you need a license." Following that logic, anything that requires a license is a privilege. So while you have a right to bear arms, it is a privilege to be a gun owner. Are you confused yet?

A privilege is a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group. But Americans are free. Right? Free people do not require special rights or immunity. They have inalienable, immutable, and absolute rights, which they are free to exercise as they desire. No license is required. Only slaves beg for greater liberties from their masters; This is what is happening when a person applies for a license.

Anywho, I am a freedom advocate. That is what I intend to do with this blog. Unfortunately, the first problem is that people do not recognize their enslavement. Only when we see the cage that we can escape from it. I intend to help you do just that. See the cage.

Forget MAGA. Make Americans Free Again (for the first time)